Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Hey there folks! I'm pleased to announce the first ever sponsorship by Scribble Doodle Designs--the collaborative design company between myself and Sandy Sommerfeld, the brilliant artist behind Scribbles Designs.

We are thrilled to be sponsoring Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) this week. TTCRD
is always an Anything Goes challenge so there are no excuses for not
entering one of your creations! This week's challenge starts today, Tuesday, and will finish on June 6th at 11:55 p.m., MST.

The team chose to work with the Puppy Powers set--choosing from the images and papers within that set. Here is a refresher as to what available in this set...

>>>You can click on the previews to bring them up in the lightbox for a better view.<<<

To purchase either of the above sets, or to purchase the patterned papers on their own

or in combination with the solid papers, simply click HERE to be taken to their location in

the Scribbles Designs store!

As TTCRD only has one winner, one person will receive both the Puppy Powers Mini Mish Mash 1 set along with the Puppy Powers Papers: Solidsset.

To
help provide some incentive, I am
offering up a word art creation that would be perfect for use with items from these sets...

This
word art creation is in png format and published at 300 ppi. To grab
it, click the download button to be taken to a download
location. In the zip
folder you will find a copy of the sentiment, its preview sheet, the
credit
information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.

You can find out all the details you need to enter the challenge over at the Through the Craft Room Door Blog. To head there now, click HERE. I hope to see some of you there!

Monday, May 30, 2016

Hello everyone! I'm back today to post for the From the Heart Stamps (FTHS)
progressive stamp of the month challenge and just in the nick of time!In order to enter the FTHS progressive challenge, you
must either have received the latest image by having participated in the
previous month or you can buy the stamp for the current month's
challenge. Everyone
who enters and follows the rules is a winner because you
automatically get the stamp for the next month's challenge. Stop by the
site and check out the rules
for yourself. While you are there, have a look around. They have some
really awesome images.

General Info:

This card has been created 100% digitally and then layered in a Mock Up (courtesy of Frisk Shop). I will print it out and assemble it a later date.

FRONT

Digital Image Details:

The image on the front,Hamlet PigWit™ In the Planter,
is available for purchase over at From the Heart Stamps. Click on the
title or on the watermark below to go to its location in the store.

If you missed out, you can still play along with the
challenge by purchasing the image. Then you can enter the challenge and
receive next month’s digi free. Alternatively, if you spend $10 in the From The Heart Stamps store
this month, you'll receive the image for free. To find the special
code you need, be sure to check out the original post by clicking HERE.

This
image was coloured digitally and with paper piecing. Credits include:

The sentiment was created by Paulette from Create with
TLC. For great freebies and inspiration be sure to click HERE to go to Paulette's blog and for awesome sets for purchase, click HERE to go to the home page of the store.

Digital Embellishments:

I have used a tag shape template for the base of my sentiment. This template was purchased from Marisa Lerin, Pixel Scrapper.

The pearls are from Janet Scott, also with Pixel Scrapper.

INSIDE

Digital Sentiment Details:

One I created to sort of match the front sentiment.

Digital Embellishments:

I have used a flower that was purchased as part of a limited time bundle from Design Cuts. The original artist is Lisa Glanz.

OVERALLDigital Paper Products:

I used a digital paper overlay created by Paulette from Create with
TLC (links above). It was coloured to match the colours in my project.

Digital Embellishments:

I have used basic shapes created in Photoshop Elements for matting in behind the image on the front and sentiment on the inside.

I have applied shadow layer styles to give certain elements some depth. These styles were designed by Sheila Reid, Pixel Scrapper.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Hello there! I hope you are enjoying your weekend thus far. It
has been such a busy month trying to catch up from having been sick
most of April that it is the end of May and I'm still NOT done!
Thankfully I did manage to get at least the first of my two progressive cards done on time; hopefully, tomorrow I'll get the second posted. For now though I'm popping in today with with my entry into the Gerda Steiner Designs
Progressive Challenge. This month we got to work with the following adorable image...

Another sweet image! Everyone who played along in last
month's challenge receivedMouse with the Drink for free. If you decide to hop on and play along
in the Gerda Steiner Designs Progressive Challenge, then you can
purchase this digital by clicking HERE (or on the watermark above to head to its location in the store). This
way you'll receive next month's digital stamp for free.

Here are my card and details...General Info:

This card has been created 100% digitally and then layered in a Mock Up (courtesy of Frisk Shop). I will print it out and assemble it a later date.

The frame is an element I purchased from Marisa Lerin, Pixel Scrapper.

The brads are originally designed by Melo Vrijhof, also with Pixel Scrapper. I have altered the colour to match my project.

INSIDE

OVERALLDigital Sentiment Details:

Both sentiments used were created by Paulette from Create with TLC. For great freebies and inspiration be sure to click HERE to go to Paulette's blog and for awesome sets for purchase, click HERE to go to the home page of the store.

I coloured the sentiments to match my project.

Digital Embellishments:

I
have used basic shapes in Photoshop Elements to create matting in behind the sentiment on the inside and the floor. I also used a basic watercolour brush to create some texture for the floor.

I have applied shadow layer styles to give certain elements some depth. These styles were designed by Sheila Reid, Pixel Scrapper.

Digital Paper Products:

The paper used as the base for the front and inside, along with the paper used as 'wall paper' pieced in behind the image are both from the Sweet Pastels digi paper set created by Imagine That Digis by Kris. Click HERE to find them in the store. Psst...Kris has a Memorial Day sale going on right now. Spend $10 or more in the store and save 30%. That's like getting one $3 set for free for every $10 spent! Sale ends Monday so act fast!

Friday, May 27, 2016

Hey peeps! I'm just popping in to let you know that the latest freebie is available over on the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog for all of our Freebie Fridayer fans!

Last weekend was the Victoria Day long weekend up here in Canada and
for many Canadians that means the start of camping season. To celebrate
I have created a
digi paper made with one of Sandy's previous
freebies. While I hate almost all bugs in general, I do like
fireflies. They are so neat.

Back in April of 2015, Sandy offered up an adorable firefly as
a freebie and I have included it in the
Freebie Friday post as well just in case there are new readers who may
not have it yet. You can find both the original image AND the
paper you see below in the preview, by clicking HERE. The original image can also be found in the store HERE.

While this paper took a little longer than usual (it is incredible
how much time it takes to make something look random!), I still had fun
working with this sweet firefly. I hope you like it as much as I
enjoyed making it. Check it out...

Another creation under the Scribble Doodle Designs
label! This free paper
is six inches by six inches (1800 pixels x 1800 pixels)--the perfect
size for card making! It is in jpg format and published at 300 dpi.
Credits include: Brooke Gazarek (Pixel Scrapper);
and of course, Scribbles Designs. As mentioned above, you can download it over on the challenge blog as today's Freebie Friday offering.

This paper would be a perfect background for either the firefly freebie or Sandy's awesome...

#8102 Firefly Mason Jar ($3.00)

Just click on the preview to find it in the store.

Don't forget to mark you calendars every Friday to head on over to the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog to grab the latest freebie up for grabs. You can find the original image and the digi paper from May 27th's postHERE.
It is a great way to add to your SD digi stamp collection and to your Scribble Doodles Designs collection. Don't
forget, that when you use an SD image on a project that you enter into
our monthly challenges, you get extra entries! That is a great
incentive to use one of Sandy's images.

Well
that is it for this post. I have three cards to get ready by the end of the month plus I'm working on a brand new kit for summer! As always, I'm busy, busy, busy behind the scenes. Take care until we meet again!

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Hi! My name is Lisa and welcome to my blog. Whether drawing, painting, cross-stitching, card making, or doing nail art, I've been 'creating' since I was knee high to a grasshopper. At the end of 2011, I really started getting interested in the world of card making and nail art. I knew that there were already a lot of creative card makers, digi stamp designers, and nail artists out there and I continue to learn a lot from them, but I needed a place to showcase my work so I could enter some challenges and as a result, created this blog in October of 2012.
I live in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. I am happily married to my college sweetheart and we have been married for over 27 years. We were never blessed with children so our 'babies' have always been cats. Currently, we have one female tabby named Marigold.
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